William Booth, a notorious forger, worked in Perry Barr, Birmingham. Using the manufacture of copper tokens as a cover, he began to produce forgeries of silver coins. He openly sent his base metal to Birmingham to be rolled to the required thickness. Eventually his activities attracted the attention of the authorities and he was arrested, convicted of forgery and hanged.
Booth carried out these counterfeit activites within close proximity to Birmingham's legitimate and most famous coiner - Matthew Boulton, of the Soho Mint.